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Join The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in discussing new and exciting research and forest restoration opportunities across the Blackfoot watershed. Over the last two decades TNC has been involved in conserving over 525,000 acres of former industrial timberlands across western Montana. A majority of these lands have been transferred into public ownership, much of it now managed by the US Forest Service. In the process of finding permanent conservation outcomes we have built a strong network of partners to protect these important landscapes. While we search for permanent conservation ownership outcomes on our current ownership—located primarily in the lower Blackfoot Watershed—we have an opportunity to engage in restoration now and initiate projects that could continue beyond our ownership. With a history of extensive timber harvest and recent large wildfires, this landscape is dominated by dense young forests in need of restoration to invest in their future resilience. We see an opportunity for the scientific community and management practitioners to partner with us and help identify opportunities to set up landscape-scale applied experiments to inform our collective understanding of the interactions of forest dynamics, climate adaptation, fire, and wildlife across the region.

Media Record Details

Feb 15, 2018
Michael S. Schaedel, Chris Bryant

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Fuels
Fuels Inventory & Monitoring
Recovery after fire

NRFSN number: 16766
Record updated: